October 2, 2018

... I couldn't get to everything I'd wanted this morning. I'd meant to work my way through "'The trauma for a man': Male fury and fear rises in GOP in defense of Kavanaugh" (WaPo), and I've got a lot more to say about stoking the fear of masculine anger and the fear of fear. I mean "Male fury and fear"... aren't half the books about Trump called either "Fear" or "Fury"? What is really going on? But that will have to wait a bit. How can it wait, when everything is an eeeemergenceeeee these days? Courage! And pick your own topics, including bland and ordinary things that don't inspire the slightest quiver of trepitude. Trepitude???

In 12 Rules, Jordon Peterson makes the point that lobsters who have been defeated in battle with another lobster experience a drop in serotonin causing lobster depression. Maybe winning the WH was so important to liberals that they have taken it as an existential defeat, lowered their serotonin levels leading to obsessiveness and depression, and the proper response should be Prozac in the drinking water in our major blue cities, rather than our cruel mockery of their derangement syndrome?

As far as fury is concerned, the loony tune from Georgetown, "Georgetown University Distinguished Associate Professor Christine Fair," is as good an example as I have run across.

“Look at thus [sic] chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist's arrogated entitlement,” Fair tweeted on Thursday. Referencing a video of "Lindsey Graham's tirade," Fair, who is a victim of sexual assault, added, “all of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps."

"Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes," she concluded the tweet.

Bart O'K lost it at the hearing. A superior dominating patriarchy white male of pure Viking and/or Celtic blood is supposed to be calm, cool and collected. Bart acted like a hot-blooded Mediterranean, which is the sign of weakness.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss;If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much;If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Said a Democrat whose party covered for Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy, both of whom were accused with actual corroborating evidence, and who now believe accusers who cite only their feelings as evidence and can’t get any verifiable detail right.

Apparently left wingers now believe rejecting openly known gang rape rings can only be explained by "fear" and is exclusive to the GOP. This seems an unwitting admission the authors believe the left is simply incapable of critical thinking.

appointed versus elected are different standards. by getting re-elected with rapey baggage means the voters were the jury and gave the heels a pass. No such check and balance on a lifetime SCOTUS appointment, therefore, they are raked much harder over the coals.

Flake has written off the voters who put him there, so he is there to be bought. All he needs is a plausible excuse. It’s like point shaving. Who has all of the politically involved billionaires, and the majority of the billionaires full stop? Democrats.

I doubt that it will come down to Flake’s vote though, but it would be better to have it.

Howard said...appointed versus elected are different standards. by getting re-elected with rapey baggage means the voters were the jury and gave the heels a pass. No such check and balance on a lifetime SCOTUS appointment, therefore, they are raked much harder over the coals.

Realpolitik Sux. Have some warm cocoa and take a nappy-nap

My only request is you leftists carry on.

Keep up the assault on due process.

When someone gets mad at you for lying about them smear them for getting angry.

I'm listening to the audio version of The Good Terrorist. It takes place in Britain in the 1980's among a bunch of communists who are trying to work with the IRA. It is amazing to me how similar their language is to the current anti-Trump leftists. Everyone they hate is a "fascist." And they hate everyone. The descriptions of the protests describe how much the main character enjoys the hate. It's almost as if the ideology is an excuse for the hate, rather than its cause.

#1“Look at thus [sic] chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist's arrogated entitlement,” Fair tweeted on Thursday. Referencing a video of "Lindsey Graham's tirade," Fair, who is a victim of sexual assault, added, “all of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps."

"Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes," she concluded the tweet.

#1“If the day comes you are accused of some crime or tort of which you are not guilty, and you find your peers automatically believing your accuser, I expect you find yourself a stronger proponent of due process protections than you are now,” Moore wrote. “Accusers sometimes lie.”

Which one do you suppose would be described as “insensitive and incendiary” and trigger an investigation?

USAGE: “A surveying suit from a Wal-Mart-type plunderbund visits the hardware store and takes a bullet in the foot for his trouble.”Jessica Winter; You Can’t Spell Slapshot without S-A-P; The Village Voice (New York); Oct 5, 1999.

In 12 Rules, Jordon Peterson makes the point that lobsters who have been defeated in battle with another lobster experience a drop in serotonin causing lobster depression. Maybe winning the WH was so important to liberals that they have taken it as an existential defeat, lowered their serotonin levels leading to obsessiveness and depression...

“Warblers are just pugnacious little things,” [postdoctoral associate Eliot] Miller said, referring to the Yellow-rumped, Pine, Palm, Townsend’s, and Orange-crowned Warblers in his feeder study. “They’re hopped up on testosterone a lot of times and are used to defending winter territories, while most other feeder birds aren’t.”

The press covered for the rapey Democrats too, so that means different standards too. BTW, pointing this out isn’t whining about realpolitik, it’s rallying our side to get out to vote. What you call “strafing” is just coming over here with your weak ass arguments making people here more firmly convinced of their positions. You are inoculating, not “strafing.”

Check the polls, Garden State Roy Moore, that would be patron of underage trafficked girls (allegedly per the girls) Menendez who can’t get close to 50% as the incumbent and who is in a virtual tie with the Republican. I hate to break it to you, but late deciders don’t go to a long time incumbent who is still on the hook for a bribery trial.

Wars from Bengazi to Kiev. Catastrophic Anthropogenic Immigration Reform. Anti-nativism progression. More wars and social justice adventures are started and sustained under Democrat administrations. The war on babies has been especially lucrative. As has been the war on couples for democratic leverage and competitive advantage.

This is from Soviet disinformation 101: fascists worked against Communists, so if you worked against Communists you were a fascist. This was true even if you worked against both Communists and fascists.

It is kind of amazing how Democrats disown the person that they are so upset about the fact that she’s not picking Supreme Court “Justices.”

For thirty years it was a conspiracy of silence on Bill Clinton, and BTW, the good friend of Bill and Hillary’s, Harvey Weinstein. Now suddenly, it takes no evidence, just uncorroborated accusations, and it’s iron clad proof! Maybe you guys feel guilty for how you have treated accusations in the past, but we don’t. We believed the women whenever they had corroboration.

With Trump, you were asking us. to choose between him and the fucking Clintons.

Speaking for myself, I very rarely get that angry or afraid over anything that goes on in politics anymore. I just become saddened.

To me, it's sad that so many people on the Left are clearly not interested in anything resembling truth or objectivity if it doesn't help their cause. Winning is far more important to them. They don't care who they destroy, what institutions are torn down, how much it costs, or whether the trust of the American citizenry in its government is completely lost because of their actions, as long as they win.

It's a long term war. You can't get too emotional or you'll be giving the enemy what they want. You can and should mock them, but you should never get too combative. You always have to keep in mind what's persuasive, what works as an argument. You don't want to come unglued, or appear too mean spirited, those aren't persuasive.

Male anger? Meh. I am much more tired of the worn-out theme of "Women angry at political climate inspired to politically engage" type of articles. If we examine this idea, we come to the conclusion that the women featured were terribly self-absorbed and selfish, and it was only due to an uncomfortable emotional state that they became 'engaged'. If I try to float the idea that, hey, maybe being concerned about larger than yourself is a normal outcome of maturity and being an adult - I get smacked down. YOU MUST HONOR MY ANGER!

Anybody else letting friendships go for the first time due to politics? I am. Doesn't matter if we agree or not - I can't even read a recipe in the newspaper without it alluding to the 'current climate'. Anybody who refuses to honor my "don't wanna talk politics/current events" is getting the heave-ho.

"It's a long term war. You can't get too emotional or you'll be giving the enemy what they want. You can and should mock them, but you should never get too combative. You always have to keep in mind what's persuasive, what works as an argument. You don't want to come unglued, or appear too mean spirited, those aren't persuasive."

Taking a long view, this is just a situational tactical approach. A truly long term war will require many such.

This raises many questions. What did she originally tell her therapist? Who was her therapist? Is her therapist known as a cautious clinician, or someone who believes in recovered memories, or what? What modalities of treatment did her therapist use? In particular, did she use hypnosis to either help Ford recover the memories, to render them less traumatic, or otherwise? When was Ford diagnosed with anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder? What other trauma(s), if any, led her to suffer from PTSD?

She hates men with a passion and is still in therapy but forget ? Not on your life.

My own first childhood memory is not of a first dog or cat or the feel of my grandmother’s cotton dress against my face as I nestled my teary face into her lap. Those are later memories. Instead, my first anamnesis is that of his stained hands pulling back my baby flesh, his trigger finger plunging deep and plucking out my innocence while I was bent over a basement couch, paralyzed by a torrent of feelings for which I still have no words while my mother napped upstairs. He and my aunt lived in our basement after they declared bankruptcy.

Mike: I already said I thought you might be right about Ford's McMartin Preschool recovered memory. I thought this was over and I congratulated you people on your victory. After Flake got punked you guys are the ones on suicide watch.

O-Mike: I agree, that is why the FBI is on it. I have also said the republicans made a mistake by not letting FBI do it's thing from the jump which IMO, led to Kavanaugh getting dragged over gravel behind a horse. You can't un-ring his pitiable performance. No matter what FBI decides, some reps might vote no because his lack of cool under pressure.

Howard said...O-Mike: I agree, that is why the FBI is on it. I have also said the republicans made a mistake by not letting FBI do it's thing from the jump which IMO, led to Kavanaugh getting dragged over gravel behind a horse. You can't un-ring his pitiable performance. No matter what FBI decides, some reps might vote no because his lack of cool under pressure.

Then Trump will renominate him.

The Republicans that vote no will be removed from the party. Flake is already gone.

Every red state democrat will lose. The over under for a generation will be 60 republican senators from 30 red states. Democrats will not hold a majority for decades.

Howard said...O-Mike: I agree, that is why the FBI is on it. I have also said the republicans made a mistake by not letting FBI do it's thing from the jump which IMO, led to Kavanaugh getting dragged over gravel behind a horse. You can't un-ring his pitiable performance. No matter what FBI decides, some reps might vote no because his lack of cool under pressure.

WASHINGTON — As a senator more than two decades ago, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. argued that President George Bush should delay filling a Supreme Court vacancy, should one arise, until the presidential election was over, and that it was “essential” that the Senate refuse to confirm a nominee to the court until then.

but the Biden rule goes against due process. The Senate rules are not and don't have to be constitutional. That's my point.

Now, there is a legitimate political argument that the Dems overstepped the mark and they will pay. I get that. We will see who is right and we will all live with the outcome, which can't be too bad because we live in Disneyland with Oxy and guns

My husband noticed in this opening remarks that Kavanaugh said he was ruined. Not that he might be ruined - that he WAS ruined. I think he has a point. He'll never get away from these charges. And Ford's story is inconstant and has no corroboration, Rameriz doesn't have a strong memory of who the guy was in her story, Swetnick is a loon, and throwing ice and using high school slang? Oy. But he is ruined. His life will never be the same.

Even his kids' lives are forever changed - what people are going to think and conclude when they apply for college or a job, or when their boyfriends want to introduce them to their parents?

The Democrats had the opportunity to review these charges privately. But they wanted to use them politically - and they don't care if they ruin a man's life. I hope they pay for this - dearly. I hope there is real justice in this case.

I love this new tactic by the Left. Because Kavanaugh got angry in response to false accusations designed to smear him, and since the accusations are falling apart, well, Kavanaugh lacks the temperament to sit on the Supreme Court.

by not letting FBI do it's thing from the jump which IMO, led to Kavanaugh getting dragged over gravel behind a horse

Come on, Howard. You know this is bullshit.

DiFi sat on that weak accusation for six weeks and sprung it at the last moment.

I know you guys are pissed about Garland. Did his wife commit suicide like Miguel Estrada's wife during the 23 months the Democrats filibustered his nomination so Bush would not have the first Hispanic nominee?

Or filibustered Janice Rogers Brown so Bush would not have the first black woman nominee ?

Remember what happened to Dukakis when he was “stoic” in response to a hypothetical about his wife getting raped? I wonder if even L’il Duce would have remained stoic in the face of a gang rape accusation from somebody he likely never met that the newspapers all pretended to take seriously?

So Mike K: do you think dragging Bart behind a horse helped him, the president and the republican party? That's another opinion that you might get from day-drinkers, but not a serious man like yourself, Doc

Now the Constitution is “tyranny.” Of course Democrats could move a little bit back to the center. Maybe support American union labor and heavy industry in the fact of Chinese dumping of steel, for example...

But the ChiComs bought and paid for the Clintons in 1996, and they apparently bought the whole party at the time.

Dukakas wasn’t stoical, he was professorial which is another aspect of emotional thinking... fake erudite.

Which is what you would have accused Kavanaugh of had he remained calm in the face of the outrageous behavior by the Democrats. I will go with the action that energizes the Republican base, since Democrats were dead set against him even before he was named.

But, a nice guardrail is to keep some connection between the government and those that they govern. Best not to just rely on hope that the government will do the just thing, sans political accountability. It's also a complicating factor when the folks running the government is substantially funded by and supportive of corporations (which are people too (we are told), but not voters). IOW, if the Rs want to continue taking out for a spin their total domination of political power of the Fed Gov, they may want to avoid dumping on the majority of American voters. Hence, avoiding tyranny.

One of the more amusing things about Howard are his malapropisms. It’s like he doesn’t understand the meanings of so many of the words he uses here, but he has seen other people use them, so they must be good words to use! It’s cargo-cult debating.

if the Rs want to continue taking out for a spin their total domination of political power of the Fed Gov, they may want to avoid dumping on the majority of American voters.

Or the Dems could move a little bit more to the center to try to appeal to voters outside of their urban islands... Naah! Like I said, maybe support workers in heavy industry in Wisconsin and PA that Obama had written off.

As I predicted more than a year ago, it will be Trump's tax returns and not the Russian collusion delusion that brings him down. If a corrupt prosecutor can't find something there, he belongs in a more honest line of work.

The tax return get to ask you about income from illegal businesses, avoiding the constitutional claim that you're being made to testify against yourself, by it being forbidden to release the tax return.

Take away that release restriction, and you've got a constitutional right not to report income.

Heavy industry is extremely automated v decades ago. W/ much more to come.

And it should be Americans running the equipment, not ChiComs, but, like I said, you Democrats have written off workers in Wisconsin, Ohio, PA, Michigan, maybe even Minnesota. I already pointed that out with the Obama quote, so I don’t get why you are belaboring it. I understand.

Money manipulators on the Manhattan’s Upper East Side make their millions and billions whether the work is done by Americans or Chinese, same with Chicago, etc. So the same warning goes for you you had for me, blue bloods in the blue states need to remember that they are part of America too. That’s why the Constitution is written the way it is.

Let's have the vote! Up or down; in or out. The GOP will net 4 Senate seats (I predict), giving them a 55-45 edge come January 2019. At that point, they'll be 2 more years of Trump judges confirmed - no filibuster, thanks Harry Reid!

Yah- I’ll run it by the MST spouse after Oct 15 (tax deadline) but sounds to me like NYT is describing what in loose 1970s and 1980s regulations are legit trust setups, transactions and valuation techniques, and one brazen violation of NJ gaming rules. NYT then wafts them up into a big dark puffy word cloud for the consumption of a hopefully suspicious voting public.

Just one suspicious example- NYT would have you believe Trump Sr. tricked IRS by sneaking around and making his young children landlords, but in actuality he made them not ‘essntially’ or ‘effectively’ landlords as NYT says, but ‘factually’ made them ‘trustees’.

Althouse, the subject of Kavanaugh's reference to the drinking age in Maryland came up and it occasioned my citing my adversaries to your son John's correction of Will Saletan in Slate.

Kudos to John on that one. The really big things to me are that Saletan has been:

~Forthright enough to accept the suggestion and make the update/correction;

~Honest in his reporting of the corrected notion(s), and;

~Shockingly representative, of left wing media in the making of that mistake. It is ALL OVER THE INTERNET! Slate's false and misleading headline repeated in different forms, in page after page of Google hits on a search of "Kavanaugh Maryland drinking age" or some similar search. All of them left-wing commentaries on how Kavanaugh "lied," and how that means that Jeff Flake can't support him. It's bullshit, and your son John gets huge props for trying to correct it.

Is this the voters who are suspicious of a swamp-infested gov that creates shortcuts and cutouts and liquidation-benefits for the rich, connected and powerful funders while placating the so-called 99% w/ visceral BS and a never-ending pile of debts?

Or, is this the voters who are worried that blackies and MOOOOOslims and wetbacks are gonna implement shariaKwanzaaFarrak reparations so ghetto mommas can have Cadillacs built in China?

I am more of a passive reader than someone who comments so I hope I am making this comment in the appropriate place.I want to challenge anyone who wants to understand the left and what is coming, please check out the book Springtime For Snowflakes, written by NYU professor Michael Rectenwald. He is a sounding an alarm over what he sees in academia and our ensuing culture..

It's most likely that Kavanaugh was angry at lack of due process, which he said is fatal to democracy. That's what I'm angry about.

Confirmation that Rom Com expert rhardon has a soap opera operating system. This is proof that ALL of your Soap Opera comments and talk of how "guys" think is just a cover. I always thought it was the ARES Hams who were the wannabe's. I always had so much respect for the aspy low-power CW backpackers and you destroyed that... forever.

I am more of a passive reader than someone who comments so I hope I am making this comment in the appropriate place. I want to challenge anyone who wants to understand the left and what is coming, please check out the book Springtime For Snowflakes, written by NYU professor Michael Rectenwald. He is a sounding an alarm over what he sees in academia and our ensuing culture..

On first blush, this sounds like a myopic view of reality. I think most people's experience with academia is to ignore the bias with BEER, like Bart.

Jesus got angry at the money changers in the temple for taking advantage of people. Anger at injustice is to be applauded. What you do with that anger is what's important. Judge K. would have been thought guilty if he had not demonstrated the utmost indignation at the unfairness and breach of simple justice to which he and his family have been subjected.

If he had brought a grenade into the hearing room and tossed to Sen. Whitehouse or Blumenthal, it would perhaps have been thought by some to be excessive. Not me, but some, maybe.

The conservative male as evidenced by the rantings of males here, has been dialed up to 11 for at least the last three or four years. So much angst and anger over those feminist devils! How come liberal men don’t seem to be so outraged on a daily basis regarding women?

GDP Now 4.1 percent, consumer confidence at an 18 year high, small business confidence breaking records. A little more interest coming in your saving and interest checking accounts. A big gain coming in your year end 401(K) statement.